Stage Winner is a free daily game about real days from cycling history. These terms are the agreement between you and the company that runs it. They are short, and they are in plain English on purpose.
By registering a team or playing the game you agree to them. If you do not agree to them, please do not use Stage Winner.
Stage Winner is operated by Empire Concepts Pty Ltd (ACN 110 696 574, ABN 35 110 696 574), an Australian company. In these terms, we, us and our means Empire Concepts, and you means you. Our contact address is podium@stagewinner.com.
You must be 16 or older to register a team. If you are under 16 you may not register, and we will remove any account we find that belongs to someone under 16.
One person, one team. You may not register multiple teams to improve your standing, and you may not register on behalf of anybody else.
Stage Winner is a game of skill and chance played for entertainment. It is not gambling, there is nothing to buy, there is no wagering, and no money changes hands in either direction. Points earned in the game have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for anything outside the game, and can be adjusted or reset by us.
The results, ratings and race narratives are our interpretation for the purposes of a game. They are not a statement of fact about any real rider, team or race, they are not a prediction, and nothing in the game is advice of any kind.
Stage Winner refers to real riders and real racing days as historical fact. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any rider, team, race organiser or governing body, and we do not claim to be. Riders appear because of what they did in the sport, not because they have any involvement with us.
If you are a rider, or you act for one, and you would rather not appear in the game, write to podium@stagewinner.com and we will remove you.
Your team name and first name appear publicly on the leaderboard. You are responsible for what you choose. Do not use anything that:
We can remove or change a team name that breaks this rule, and we can remove a team from the leaderboard, without notice. We are not obliged to monitor what anyone chooses, and something appearing on the leaderboard does not mean we have approved it.
Join 1 squad of up to 8 players. You can request to leave at any time; during a tour, departure takes effect after it finishes. Squad names follow the team name rules above. We can remove a squad or change its name if it breaks these rules.
The same conduct rules apply to private messages and squad offers. Do not spam, harass or impersonate staff. Players can block senders and report messages. Official Dingo notices carry a separate label. Accepting a squad offer is subject to an available place and the existing membership and tour rules.
The same conduct rules apply to squad names and Bus Chat. Keep the banter about the racing, support your teammates, and do not share someone else’s private information. You can report a message to squad admins or contact podium@stagewinner.com. Admins can remove messages and manage squad membership.
Dingo’s private squad Dispatch may quote messages from your Bus Chat alongside your squad’s results. You can delete your own messages; deleted text is omitted when a Dispatch is reopened. Share squad invite links only with people you want to join.
You agree not to:
Every race is reproducible from the team, the captain, the tactic and the day. A result we cannot reproduce will be removed from the leaderboard.
Sign in is by a single use code sent to your email address, so keep access to that address secure. Anybody who can read your email can sign in as you. Tell us straight away if you think somebody else has been using your team.
You can delete your account at any time by writing to us. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will tell you why unless there is a legal reason not to.
Stage Winner is free and the ordinary game has no prize. From time to time a sponsor may offer a prize or a competition. When that happens it will have its own rules published at the time, those rules will say who is running it, who is eligible and how a winner is chosen, and those rules will prevail over these terms for that competition. Nothing on this page is an offer of a prize.
Stage Winner, its name, its logo, the game design, the software, the written material, the rider and day databases and the way they are put together belong to us or to our licensors. You get a personal, revocable, non exclusive licence to play the game for your own entertainment, and nothing else.
Anything you contribute, which in practice means a team name and a first name, stays yours, and you give us permission to display it on the leaderboard and in results shared from the game.
We would like Stage Winner to be there every day, and we will make reasonable efforts to keep it running, but it is a free game. We do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error free, and we may change it, suspend it or stop it altogether at any time. If we decide to close it for good we will give notice in the daily email where we reasonably can.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), including the Australian Consumer Law, or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where a right cannot be excluded but our liability for it can be limited, our liability is limited to resupplying the service or paying the cost of having it resupplied.
Subject to the box above, and to the fullest extent the law allows:
You use Stage Winner because you want to. Nothing here is worth risking anything over.
You agree to indemnify us against any claim, loss or cost arising from your breach of these terms, from anything unlawful you do through Stage Winner, or from a team name or first name you chose. This does not apply to anything caused by our own breach or negligence.
You can choose to watch a short advertisement in exchange for 2 extra re-spins. You never have to. Advertisements and any linked site are not ours, we do not control them and we are not responsible for them or for anything you buy from them.
How we handle your information is set out in our privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.
We may update these terms. If a change is significant we will say so in the daily stage email before it takes effect, and we may ask you to agree again. The date at the bottom of this page is when it was last revised. If you keep playing after a change takes effect, the revised terms apply to you.
These terms are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia, and you and we submit to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria. If you are a consumer resident somewhere else, this does not take away any protection you have under the mandatory law of the place you live.
If something goes wrong, write to us first at podium@stagewinner.com. Most things are fixable in an email.
If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest of it still stands. If we do not enforce something straight away, that does not mean we have given it up. These terms, together with the privacy policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about Stage Winner. You may not transfer your rights under them; we may transfer ours if the game changes hands, and you would be told before it did.